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The fight against impunity has become a growing concern of the international community. Updated in 2005, the UN Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights Through Action to Combat Impunity is the fruit of several years of study, developed under the aegis …
This book is the first to present the state of the art and provide technical focus on the latest advances in the foundations of blockchain systems. It is a collaborative work between specialists in cryptography, distributed systems, formal languages, and economics, and addresses…
A leading management consultant outlines seven organizational rules for improving effectiveness and increasing productivity at work and at home.
This dissertation, using the case of the historical establishment of the American Sociological Association archives, argues that a lack of collaboration across institutions and among people contributed to difficulties in establishing the significance of the ASA archives as a soc…
In the Western Balkans, as an historical paradox, there are two Albanian states: Albania, who won its independence from Ottoman Empire in 1912, and Kosovo who declared its independence from Serbia in February 2008. Albania and Kosovo are two states with the majority of its citiz…
This dissertation studies religion and family from the economic point of view. What distinguishes the economic approach from the other social sciences is that it adheres to a set of natural economic laws applying to human action regardless of time and place. Thus, all actors in …
Situating Tamil Cinema interrogates contemporary Tamil cinema’s relationship with the shifting meanings of world cinema as an emergent organizing principle of film studies. Specifically, the dissertation studies the reconfiguration of the narrative modes of Tamil cinema in the c…
The question of whether there are different sizes of infinity has a curious history. From the time of Aristotle to the late nineteenth century, there was widespread disagreement about what to say about it, and arguments of a broadly mathematical nature were given on both sides. …
This dissertation focuses on the sustainability of the South African Government’s privatisation policy, and to which extent it is able to facilitate access to water and sanitation for all the citizens. After the demise of apartheid in 1994, the new African National Congress-led …
The television cartoon emerged in the postwar United States when animation mediated television and television simplified animation. This vibrant media form has long since outgrown comparisons with cinema animation, for today its influence is everywhere. Traditional artistic anim…
William James considered Swami Vivekananda the exemplary example of a monist, and he comes to reject Vivekananda's philosophy because it ultimately did not suit his active temperament. However, judging from his assessment of Vivekananda's philosophy, it appears James had a limit…
This dissertation contains three papers that increase our understanding of the impacts of public policies, with a special focus on policies geared toward the poor. The first chapter considers the impact of the minimum wage, one of the most pervasive policy in existence today, to…
Climate is called "the only nature that has not been artificially created". With the acceleration of globalization, the convergence of buildings in different regions is increasingly apparent. When we retrospect to the regionality of buildings, the local climate with which the bu…
Most higher education institutions have mission statements articulating a commitment to serve the public good, and venerate the broader historical project of higher education as a force that improves the lives of individuals and communities. However, the public purpose of higher…